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A brief discussion on the creation of earthquake popular science courseware for different social groups

地震科学进展, 2020
The popular science lectures are one of the main methods for public education of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction. As an absolutely necessary part of popular science lectures for earthquake，the effect of the science lectures is directly influenced by the content，form and creation level of the popular science courseware.
Hongmei Li, Ning Liu
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

The global earthquake history

, 2014
The study of earthquakes from historical sources, or historical seismology, was considered an early priority for the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) project, which commissioned a study of historical seismicity on a global scale.
Viganò, D., Musson, R. M. W., Albini, P., Gomez Capera, Antonio A., Andrea Rovida, Daniele Viganò, Rovida, Andrea, Locati, M., Mario Locati, Gomez Capera, A. A., Antonio A. Gomez Capera, Albini, Paola, Rovida, A., Musson, Roger M.W., Paola Albini, Locati, Mario, Viganò, Daniele, Roger M. W. Musson   +17 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of the governance landscape of earthquake risk reduction in Nepal and the Indian State of Bihar [PDF]

, 2016
On 25 April 2015, a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck central Nepal, killing more than 8,700 people. An earthquake of this magnitude has long been anticipated in Nepal and the neighbouring northern Indian state of Bihar, which straddle the active Himalayan ...
Jones, Samantha, Oven, Katie J., Wisner, B., Oven, Katie, Jones, S., Wisner, Ben, Oven, K.J.   +6 more
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Differentiable Randers‐Finsler Eikonal Solvers

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Fast and differentiable solvers for anisotropic and asymmetric distance fields are a key primitive in geometry processing, enabling gradient‐based optimization over metrics, drift fields, and downstream objectives that depend on geodesic distances and geodesics.
Barak Gahtan, Jacob Shpund, Alex M. Bronstein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison, Jimmy Martí­nez‐Correa, Karlijn Morsink, Jia Min Ng, J. Todd Swarthout   +4 more
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The Levee Love Affair Decades Later, Still Stormy: Confronting the Accreditation Crisis and Charting Solutions

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Volume 62, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT While levees safeguard over 23 million people and trillions of dollars in property, a profound, largely unrecognized flood risk crisis is emerging. Because approximately 75% of surveyed levees remain unaccredited, millions live behind levee systems that may not meet minimum federal safety standards.
Erin K. Duhon, Kaleigh M. Yost, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Daniel Brent, Audrey Everett, Joseph Bellini, Raj Cibin, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Peter Stempel, Alfonso Mejia   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-earthquake assessment of moderately damaged reinforced concrete plastic hinges

, 2020
Modern reinforced concrete buildings are often designed to dissipate energy during strong earthquakes by permitting the controlled formation of plastic hinges. Plastic hinges require assessment of residual capacity in post-earthquake situations. However,
Marder, K, Elwood, Kenneth, Motter, CJ, Clifton, George   +3 more
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